The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-25
A CANNIBAL AT WHIST.
A Ticklish Game in Which a Man
Eater Took Part,
Observation-Disclosures
From The New York Mail.

! From the New York Mail.
| / have known two cannibals intimately. and
| they were both most agreeable men. One was
| my host in New Zealand and the other my
| partner at whist in Fiji. The race is dying
out so fast and the opportunity Of counting
cannibal among your acquaintance is growing
rare, that my impressions of them and this
remark on the subject may not be without in
tcrest.
During trip through the North island Of
New Zealand in 1880 / met in the vicinity of
the beautiful Bay Of Islands the old Maori
chief, TIE Ienera. At this time he was APP
preaching eighty years OF age, but his intellect
was bright and his memory apparently uniin-
paired. In his younger DAYS lie must have
been man of magnificent physique, but now
he was bent and Withcred and his wonderfully
tattooed face resembled some curiousy notified
piece Of parchment. All his life had been
passed in the North island, mostly in the neigh
borhood of Pahia. lie wen remembered the
arrival Of the first white settlers, and many
and wonderful were the yalns he told about
them. On the subject of cannibalism he spoke
as an expert, having partaken Of many hu-
man JOINT From him | learned that the
Maoris never INDUCED in cannibalism except
in the case Of enemies killed or taken prisoner
in battle. Prisoners, however, were often kept
for years as slaves, and then, on the occasion
OF some great feast occurring, taken and killed.
This would account for the stories told by
the early missionary settlers OF the slaughter
Of human Victims in time Of peace. Rarely,
except after a big battle, or tie wreck OF
some ship on their rock-bound coast did the
Maoris indulge in human banquet. The
feast was conducted with considerable cere-
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